- It seems that the the Facilities Planning Office (previously the Office of Facilities Planning?) has become the Office of Planning, Design, and Construction (see the website of September 2004, showing old name while accessing current images; the name of the site directory is still “~fpo”).
The new name is clearer and more informative, but nothing beats the style of the design office that is associated with the Capitol in Washington: The Architect of the Capitol.
- The walls are up in the McLaughlin Cluster (webcam looking south from Gilman), being built by Engelberth
- Kemeny/Haldeman is in its yellow stage and the steel framing for the tower (no name apparently announced yet) is up (photos from the Math Department project site).
- The Dartmouth has more on Fred Wilson’s exhibition in the Hood and about the Hood.
- Skypic has available aerial views (1 | 2) of Dartmouth.
Category Archives: publications
Football history
Errata for the first page of the enjoyable Dartmouth College Football: Green Fields of Autumn by David Shribman and Jack DeGange (page 10):
- “Old Division,” later known as “Whole Division,” was Dartmouth’s distinctive football game in the mid-19th century.
Should read:
“Old Division,” later known as “Whole Division,” was Dartmouth’s distinctive soccer-style game by the mid-19th century. - The “field,” originally the entire campus, was later narrowed to “the college yard,” now the Green.
Should read:
The field was the Green. - The buildings in the background of this photograph (including the Church of Christ) that had not already been moved or replaced were relocated from the north end of the Green when Baker Library was built in the 1920s
Should read:
The houses in the background of this photograph were relocated from the north end of the Green before Baker Library was built in the 1920s, and the Church of Christ burned down in 1931.
The first and last notes are merely pickiness regarding imprecisions (though the implication that Old Division was related to American Football would be inaccurate). The second note deserves some clarification. The College Yard was and is east of the Green, between College Street and Dartmouth Hall. The “Campus,” of course, was what’s now called the Green.
Rollins window controversy, myth
College Chaplain Rev. Richard Crocker expects the stained glass windows in Rollins to be repaired beginning during the summer of 2006 according to an interview in the Dartmouth Review. Â The Review also prints Kale Bongers’ historically-minded editorial supporting the restoration.
In his interview, Rev. Crocker related with qualifications the story that the Rollins altar was moved back to the east end during the 1960s and that the sun that shone through the apse windows into the eyes of the audience as a result was part of the reason the school covered the windows. Â The pulpit or lectern had been moved to the southeast corner of the crossing in 1912 when the transepts were lengthened and effectively made into a new nave (the hillside blocked any more expansion to the east).
Dog regulations
Dogs really are allowed to sit in on lectures. According to the Dartmouth Administrative Guide, non-messy dogs are allowed in non-dormitory buildings if they are in the care of a keeper. The regulation does not mention dogs that run free and are not “creating a nuisance.”
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken links to DAG removed.]
Projects underway
The Review has posted its latest issue, which includes a list of projects underway, some stats for the north campus, and a thoughtful article on the new construction by Joseph Rago, who quotes Dean Redman on the planning of the new dorms north of Maynard: “We learned from our mistakes in East Wheelock[.]”
Remember, you heard about the “mini-mansard” here first! (Actually, mini-mansard is probably not the right word, since the roof does not slope at the gable ends: perhaps it is a cryptogambrel?)
Photos of Vermont
The UVM Landscape Change Program has a large database of images.
The Princeton Architectural Press book on Dartmouth’s campus still may be coming.
The Green Mountain Railroad is running weekend excursion trains from White River to the Montshire Museum and may be able to expand tourist service when it finishes upgrading the right of way.
Site updates; advertising
“Law School?” posted.
Amazon links added to this page.
This page altered slightly.
Indian Yell paper given its own page.
Video, master planning
Back in December the school released a seven-minute video about the building program featuring architect and master planner Lo-Yi Chan ’54.
The Facilities Planning Office has a redesigned site that includes a Master Plan Map of September, 2003.
Facilities plan released
The facilities plan, “Dartmouth and the Upper Valley:A Special College and a Special Place” is on line and describes several interesting projects apparently not yet settled on, most notably a A “Commons House” behind Dartmouth Row that will provide social spaces. Others include the renovation of Thayer Dining Hall for social and performance spaces; a Tuck residence hall adjacent Whittemore; 145 residential units in Grasse Road faculty/staff housing; 200 apartment units in Rivercrest, north of campus; and a parking garage south of Cummings for 750+ cars.
Campus Guide
Princeton Architectural Press will be publishing a Senior Lecturer‘s Dartmouth Campus Guide, with photos by college photographer Joseph Mehling: at Amazon during February.
[Updated 07.12.2005: The press since has withdrawn plans to publish the text, and it appears in the out-of-stock list of Princeton Architectural Press.]
[Updated 07.30.2006: The press states that the book has been canceled.]
[Updated 11.17.2007: The press will publish a campus guide in 2008.
[Updated 06.29.2008: Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide was published on June 1.]
Pavilion opens in Thayer
The Pavilion, the school’s kosher/ halal/ sakahara dining facility in Thayer Hall, has opened according to a press release.
Dartmouth has added a thorough “virtual tour” of the campus to its website.
Proposal for a coat of arms
Link to Professor Jonathan Good’s “Proposal for a Heraldic Coat of Arms for Dartmouth College” added to Links.
[Update 08.22.2005: link updated.]
[Update 01.22.2011: link moved.]
Zoning changes proposed
An Environmental Studies class recommends changes to zoning in Hanover, as described in a press release.
Guide to memorials on campus
Charles Wood’s new guide to memorials on the campus is described in a press release.